COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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The Europeans took away all the food from the Africans.
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The Europeans did not allow the Africans to eat.
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The Europeans forced the Africans to focus on cash crops.
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The Europeans took away all the Africans’ land.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The lower wages and poor working conditions of African workers compared with white workers showed the intensified exploitation of the former. The shift towards cash crops for the market economy forced the majority of Africans to give up subsistence agriculture, which in turn led to hunger and famine in the continent.
Detailed explanation-2: -Forced labor increased and many African men were separated from their families, since only men were used to work on farms and mines. African villages lost their manpower for food production, leading to famine.
Detailed explanation-3: -The reasons for African colonisation were mainly economic, political and religious. During this time of colonisation, an economic depression was occurring in Europe, and powerful countries such as Germany, France, and Great Britain, were losing money.
Detailed explanation-4: -Negative effects The Africans lost their political independence. Some traditional political institutions were destroyed and replaced with foreign ones. Foreign culture was imposed on Africans without regard for their own culture.
Detailed explanation-5: -The cash crop revolution led to an important spatial shift in economic production to areas suitable for oil palm, groundnuts, cocoa, coffee, and cotton and enabled millions of African smallholders and traders to benefit from global exchange (Hopkins 1973).